CDROM and eth0 not detected on reboot

[Joel Hammer]

I burned a CD at work and could not read it at home on any computer.
(XP home, XP pro, Caldera 2.4, lindows 3.0, lindows 4.0). Everytime the
first big jpeg file gets accessed (6 million bytes), everybody just hangs.
Windows explorer won't even shut down, requiring a reboot.

I dual boot lindows 3.0 and windows XP pro.  So, after a hang reading
this CD in XP pro and a reboot into lindows,  booting lindows results
in no eth0 device detected, and the cdrom isn't detected.  In the bios
setup up the eth0 is enabled and the cdrom is detected. The cdrom problem
is especially bad since I can't run any of the diagnostic software I
think might be on the motherboards's CD.

Is this just a new motherboard going bad? Could XP crashing have damaged
the linux partition? I had the linux partition disabled in XP before the
problem began.

Any suggestions appreciated.


Joel